I agree with Quaestor, it's a great gesture and deserves to be applauded. The Malinois isn't a German Shepherd, it's a type of Belgian Shepherd Dog closely akin to the Tervuren. Excellent sheepherders, calm, brave, loyal, highly intelligent; and very good at barn work and working close-in with sheep. My sheepherding trainer has two and they work with my border collies like a pack of benign wolves to move her flocks. Malinois/Tervurens and border collies have very different herding styles but the two compliment each other: the border collies go long, the Belgians go close in, and between the two of them they get the job done quite nicely.